Urban Fest an annual event which this year is themed Come to Unity It's Time to Unity, the more festive with the participation of various communities including indie musicians. Even from approximately 20 indie bands homeland, tucked foreign musicians.

Is Bunkface (Malaysia), Cupidfall (Australia), Fall of Mirra (Singapore), Love Me Butch (Malaysia) and Typecast (Filipinos) are new this time and always enliven the fifth event held in Ancol, North Jakarta part of it.

According to the Chairman of the Committee for Urban Fest 2011 Nugroho F Yudho, the involvement of a number of foreign musicians deliberately done to see the response of indie music enthusiasts. Did the opposite.

"We first want to try and clay responses, both from spectators and indie bands from outside itself," he said at Comic Cafe, Epicentrum Walk, Jakarta, Friday (28/10).

Nugroho also hope that with the presence of foreign musicians could spur the creative industries in the country continues to grow.

"Because it's drawn to the idealism, I imagine the more advanced Indonesia creative industry. For in the UK has more than half is driven by the creative industry. So their arrival also aims to mobilize the creative industries," he said.

But unfortunately, continued Nugroho, at Urban Fest this year runs from November 19 to 20 at Ancol Art Market is a famous indie bands in Europe and America, SID, sidelined since the middle of touring.

"The rest of Indonesia indie bands would be present at this festival. A variety of genres played like rock, classical, even dangdut," he added.

source : kapanlagi.com